jailhouse in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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This powder is gained by filing light alloy e.g. lawnmower casing, and is a jailhouse commodity.
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A fourth jailhouse was built in 1874, and burned down in 1885, with one fatality being a prisoner.
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Unable to raise the funds, he spends forty days in the jailhouse.
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The conviction was overturned in 1985 after it emerged that the jailhouse informants who testified at his trial had perjured themselves on the stand.
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Lightning reaches the jailhouse, but as he opens the door the hobo throws a stick of dynamite out.
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Inside the fort was the military and administration center, church, garrisons, and jailhouse; outside was the downtown.
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The sheriff arranges with the bank to move all the money to the jailhouse, but one of the gang sees them.
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In comments after his release, televised from outside the jailhouse, the satirist vowed to continue his campaign against the country's colonial-era law on sedition.
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A mob of the white caps soon surrounded the jailhouse and the militia and began taunting them for several hours.
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Stocks and a jailhouse were constructed for the punishment of criminal offenders.
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